He said, "The factory manager, Mr. Gao, has bailed her out, but she refuses to leave because..."

Li Xia refused to leave because Secretary Hu had spent 200,000 yuan and committed burglary. However, the secretary's family members came to bail him out, and she suspected that the police would pull strings for the secretary. Therefore, she refused to leave and wanted to stay and keep an eye on things at the scene.

Chen Rou fastened her pajamas and checked the time. It was too early to get up; it was only one in the morning.

But she couldn't fall asleep if she didn't get up and continued sleeping. Holding the alarm clock, she was at a loss.

Nie Zhao overheard the conversation on the phone, but didn't know the specifics of what had happened. However, after hearing Chen Rou mention words like "detention," he guessed that Li Xia had probably been taken to the police station. His wife was unwilling to lie down because she wanted to get through the ordeal as soon as possible tomorrow. After thinking for a moment, he compromised and said, "If you have something urgent, An Jie is currently in Shenzhen."

Seeing his wife's eyes light up, he continued, "Your visa is for the day after tomorrow, but it can be expedited to the same day. However, if you want to cross the border at six in the morning, even I can't process it. It will have to be after 8:00."

An Jie is Nie Rong's secretary. Chen Rou didn't care what Secretary An was going to do after passing through the checkpoint. She only asked, "Can you contact him now and ask him to go to the Bao'an Branch of the Shenzhen Public Security Bureau? My friend Li Xia is there."

Boss Nie is an expert in this area: "You need to get someone out of trouble, right? Should we bring a lawyer?"

Unlike Hong Kong, where people travel with a lawyer and file lawsuits at the slightest disagreement, Chen Rou desperately needs a lawyer now. Her eyes lit up even more: "Secretary An even brought a lawyer with her to the mainland?"

Nie Zhao already understood his wife's meaning. He had just turned on his mobile phone and made a call to Secretary An, instructing him to go to the Bao'an branch to bail out the person, while deliberately emphasizing, "Remember to bring some late-night snacks."

His unstoppable momentum, which had been sweeping ahead, was finally salvaged by money.

The wife finally breathed a sigh of relief, slid softly onto the bed, and let out a long sigh.

The letter she wrote to Li Xia was left on the table. She didn't deliberately hide it from Nie Zhao; she just felt he was busy with work and there was no need for her to bother him with such a thing, so she didn't talk to him about it. She guessed he knew the general situation. She explained, "Currently, most state-owned factories in mainland China are in arrears with wages and IOUs are flying everywhere."

What happens when products can't be sold and wages can't be paid? Layoff workers are laid off, but instead of receiving money, the factory will give them an IOU, commonly known as a "white note." IOUs are issued by factories everywhere.

Given the general environment, the situation in each factory was similar. So when Chen Rou gave the wool mill 500,000 yuan, she knew that the money would be diverted to pay wages and compensate laid-off workers. Since it was money from Hong Kong businessmen, the debts couldn't be avoided. But in her estimation, at least 300,000 yuan would be diverted to lay off workers, leaving at most 200,000 yuan in the account.

Now that she's going back, she'll be known as a Hong Kong businesswoman and an overseas investor. With Shenzhen in the midst of a major investment drive, not only will she not be able to renege on that debt, but the government will also help her resolve it satisfactorily, to avoid damaging investor confidence.

Then, logically, the leaders who embezzled the money could get out of there, and Chen Rou could talk to the remaining ones with a conscience and have them join forces with Li Xia to take over the wool mill. Then she would find a way to help Li Xia open up sales channels.

She couldn't give Li Xia money directly because overseas remittances are processed openly through savings banks.

Sending money directly to Li Xia would be like giving a homeless child a large piece of gold; it wouldn't help her and would only bring her trouble. She also couldn't possibly give Li Xia a real job, because Li Xia was just an ordinary female textile worker. Even if she were given a high-end job, she wouldn't be able to do it. Finding her a position during the reform of private enterprises was the best option.

This would both elevate her social status and prevent her from being directly pulled out of her original social relationships, falling into another kind of lonely predicament. Therefore, Chen Rou's idea was very good.

But what she didn't assess was Li Xia's toughness, the danger posed by her younger brother from her maternal family, and the unscrupulousness of the state-owned factory leaders after they suddenly became rich.

If Li Xia hadn't been so assertive, even if all 500,000 yuan had been squandered, at worst a bunch of leaders would have stepped down, the government would have given her the wool mill, and the mill would have been hers. It wouldn't have mattered.

If her younger brother Li Gang didn't return after hearing the news, it would prove that he really went to Japan to work in an electronics factory, earning a high monthly salary and making a lot of money. But Li Gang returned immediately after hearing the news, which can only mean one thing: the smuggler he was working for had problems, and he wasn't making honest money or big money.

In short, Chen Rou was indeed inexperienced in scheming and intrigue, while Li Xia was too pure and fierce. Together, they almost caused a murder case.

She recounted the whole story to Nie Zhaozai with lingering fear, and then analyzed it in detail before saying, "I originally wanted to find her something to do, but I never expected to almost harm her."

Nie Zhao looked at his wife with a deep gaze: "Arou, you should set up a special textile competition for the mainland. The entries only need to be mailed to Hong Kong. Then recommend Li Xia to participate, give her a gold medal, and send her a scholarship so she can go to school."

Chen Rou's mouth dropped open: "You can organize the event yourself?"

“Just run an advertisement, what’s wrong with the company using the Nie family’s name?” Nie Zhao retorted.

Chen Rou was born nearly 30 years later than Nie Zhao, but just as Nie Zhao, even if reborn, could not develop a fist as hard as hers, even the current Nie Zhao's business acumen is beyond Chen Rou's reach.

She created a private award specifically for Li Xia, and then sponsored Li Xia to go back to school. This would not only allow her to completely escape her current social class, but also allow her to enter a relatively stable social class with a higher social status.

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